Sentences with phrase «set world records»

Some ride theirs everyday to work (for years), others tour whole continents, while yet others have set world records for upright bicycles.

I have also set world records for numerous Commodore 64 games, including Summer Games, which were all done on the actual computer, although Twin Galaxies folded for the first time right after I submitted them.

Ocarina of Time also set world records for high review scores, although personally I do not like the game very much, apart from two elements — the titular ocarina, which was perfectly designed for the controller and taught the player some actual musical skills, and the horse Epona, about which I will have more to say later in this serial.

It embodies generations of car loves and drag racing heritage and actually set world records by doing so.

The 208 GTi won't set any world records for power, using a 147kW / 275Nm 1.6 - litre THP 200 engine.

The story of real - life amateur cyclist Graeme Obree - who set world records in individual cycling events - is frequently interesting, and the decision to spotlight his battle with depression is noble.

Mitchell's scores, which had set world records in Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., had been recognized by the forum for eight years.

Grueling exercise and set world records and run marathons.

While it may be a viable option for professional athletes, it will be an overkill for regular fitness enthusiast whose goal is just to get strong, not to set world records.

Heitzenroeder helped design coils for the Princeton Large Torus and Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor facilities, both of which set world records for plasma temperature at the time.

These multi-junction solar cells have set world records in efficiency, approaching 50 percent, but they require expensive manufacturing techniques, limiting them to niche applications like satellites or requiring mirrors to concentrate sunlight on tiny cells (ClimateWire, Oct. 20, 2014).

It's right on Oxford Road and was purpose built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and has seen idols such as Ian Thorpe set world records in it!

Americans Bill Nieder and Dallas Long used the O'Brien technique to win Olympic golds and set world records of their own, as did Randy Matson of Texas A&M, who was the first 70 - foot man.

He competed at the 1972 Olympics, coming in 27th out of 32, and set world records (since broken) in the 35 - and 56 - pound weight throws.

From humble beginnings walking for 18 straight hours on a high school track, Jesse Casta √ ± eda, here before Red Rock Cliff in New Mexico, has set world records and gained renown as a formidable perambulator

The Aquatics Centre was purpose built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, idols such as Ian Thorpe have set world records there!

Walker, a 62 - year - old human resources manager who took up powerlifting after developing osteoarthritis, set world records for her age group (60 — 64) in the 70 - kilogram weight class for power squat (77.5 kg), bench press (45 kg), and deadlift (112.5 kg) at the World Drug - Free Powerlifting Federation championships in Muskegon, Mich..

Greek runner Michail Seitis set a world record for his division with a time of 49.66 seconds in the men's 400 - meter final on Thursday.

Prodigy Network, a real estate crowdfunder, claims to have set the world record in its industry by leading 3,500 investors and raising more than $ 240 million to fund Colombia's largest skyscraper.

«If you're up for an even greater challenge, you can also try to set the World Record for fastest clear time!»

Help us set the world record for the most number of people coworking in one place at one time.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

Smurfit Kappa general manager of the van Dam plant Wim Peeters says: «It's not every day that you set a world record so there was a lot of excitement when it was confirmed by Guinness.

MAURICE GREENE, Sprinter The Kansas City native and Kansas City Kansas Community College alum set the world record in the 100 meters (9.79 seconds) in 1999 and earned two gold medals at the 2000 Olympics, in the 100 and the 4x100 relay.

now spreading rumors man city set world record bid to land jack wilshere.

Oilman Travis Kerr's moneymaker fought off stretch bids by Manassas and Noureddin to set world record of 1:53 2/5 for 13/16 mile on turf, picked up $ 75,750 to boost alltime earnings to whopping $ 1,541,889.

Hot on the heels of Maurice Greene, the 2000 Olympic100 - meter champion, and Leonard Scott, the»06 world 60 - meter champ, zips46 - year - old Willie Gault, a former Tennessee hurdler and member of the 4 √ ó100relay team that set the world record at the»83 world championships.

HARNESS RACING — SILK STOCKINGS ($ 3.00), driven by Preston Burris Jr., set a world record for fillies and mares with a 1:57 [3/5] clocking over the half - mile Monticello Raceway.

Mass., recently set a world record by throwing a boomerang that remained aloft for 2 minutes, 31.02 seconds.

Darryl Greenamyer, of Las Vegas, set a world record for unlimited prop planes by flying his World War II P - 51 at a speed of 413.987 mph at the Reno National Championship air races.

At last summer's worldchampionships Ziegler won gold medals in the 1,500 and 800 freestyles, andHardy set a world record of 1:06.20 in the 100 breaststroke semifinals beforefinishing second in the final to Australia's Leisel Jones.

Franklin set the world record in a comfortable full body length win over Anastasia Zueva, as well as fellow American Elizabeth Beisel.

Lydia Skoblikova is not quite 22, much younger than Grishin, and she was not even at Cortina four years ago; but at Squaw Valley she won two gold medals in speed skating, too, setting a world record in the 1,500 - meter race, winning the 3,000 and coming close to winning a third medal in the 1,000, where she finished fourth.

Later at the Games he ran the slowest leg on the 4 x 400 team that set the world record of 2:55.74.

The subject of Usain Bolt crossing over into other sports has been a subject ever since the greatest sprinter of all time started setting world records.

Kenichi Ito of Japan, who says he spent nine years developing his technique, modeled on the gait of the African patas monkey, set a world record (17.47 seconds) for running 100 meters on all fours.

Tim won in the 1908 Olympics and Dan set the world record at 50 feet, 11 inches in 1911.

Flanagan, McGrath, McDonald and Ryan all made marks of over 38 feet in AAU championships and McGrath set the world record at 40 feet, 6 inches in 1911.

Dan Orlich, former Green Bay Packer end from Reno, Nev., set a world record in trap - shooting by dropping 399 of 400 targets to take all - round championship of the Sahara Gun Club's fall tournament at Las Vegas.

Carmelita Jeter, Bianca Knight, Allyson Felix and Tianna Madison pose with the clock after setting the world record in the 4 x 100m Relay.

Son of an ex-lifeguard and swimming since he was 9, this 17 - year - old high schooler from Santa Clara, Calif. set a world record in the 200 - meter butterfly (2:06.4) and already had a pending mark in the 100 - meter butterfly.

Elaine beat U.S. girls in setting world records in both backstroke events.

She set a world record in the 400 - meter freestyle (4:32.6) and was especially brutal in the 800, where she knocked 14 seconds off the world mark.

# 23 Ab Jenkins SALT LAKE CITY Set more than 60 auto endurance records; set world record in 1927 by driving from New York to San Francisco in 76 hours.

Well, in case you didn't notice — and it looks that way — an American set a world record in the London Marathon on April 14.

148:30:56 Time, in hours, minutes and seconds, in which Lloyd Scott, 41, completed the Edinburgh Marathon in a 130 - pound diving suit to set a world record for the slowest marathon.

His wife, the former Mary Rand, who won a gold medal in the long jump — and set a world record — for Great Britain in the 1964 Olympics, listened patiently for a while.

«Speed skiing on snow is much easier and way more fun than doing it on top of a car in the middle of the desert,» says Sean Cridland, who set the world record in the cartop category at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats two weeks ago.

Wohlhuter, an insurance salesman in Chicago, was the Sullivan Award winner in 1974, when he was undefeated in the 880 and set a world record, but he was definitely beatable last year.

Last September, in Berlin, El Guerrouj set a world record in the 2,000 meters — by an astounding three seconds — for which sponsors of the meet tastefully awarded him a kilo of gold.